Just when you thought nothing could get any worse.

After the dramatic experience with Tressa throwing up all over me. I thought nothing could get any worse. Boy, was I wrong. The following day, our ward was putting on the annual ward pig-nic about 20 minutes out of the city. Ken had to go because he is on the activity committee. I was debating whether or not I should take Tressa for an hour or so, just to get out for some fresh air. I really should have followed my gut and not taken her. For one reason, while we were just getting down to eating dinner, I noticed a bunch of bees flying around us. I told Ken that the bees are annoying and I was worried of them being around Tressa. Again, Ken said, "There just bees, they aren't hurting anything." Boy was he wrong. Yes, Ken can be wrong at times. Before long, I look down and Tressa is holding a bee with her right hand. I look at her left hand and she has a stinger in her index finger. My guess is she saw the bee stinging her and picked the bee up off her finger. I tried to get the stinger out, but was unsuccessful at getting it all out.

Now her finger starts to swell, we are asking around hoping someone has some tweezers. We were able to track some down, but we were not able to get the stinger out. Now her finger is getting bigger and her hand is starting to swell. We put some mud on the stinger, didn't work. Finally, we decided to just go into town and call the pediatrician. Before we left, Ken and the Elders Quorum President gave Tressa a blessing. When we got home we gave Tressa some Benadryl (which we had to get on the way home because we didn't have any at the house). The pediatrician returned our page and she said to go buy some Adolf meat tenderizer. Who would have guessed?

Ken went and got some tenderizer. By George, it actually worked. FYI: If you ever want to skip a trip to the hospital just use meat tenderizer for a bee sting. I guess it has somewhat the same effect as the mud.

Anyway, Tressa is doing much better this morning. We kept her home from church yesterday and pumping her with medication. She is getting back to her old self. She is getting into everything. It is good to have her back.

I didn't think it would happen to me.

I know as a mother, we experience things that normally you think wouldn't happen to you. I had one of those experiences last night. Yesterday, Tressa had a fever of 100.6 and it kept climbing. We switched between Tylenol and Ibuprofen every couple of hours to help the fever go down. However, it kept climbing. Before dinner she was at 102.3. I am thinking to myself this is going to be a long night. Around 7:00 we had Ken's interns over for a BBQ and games. I was surprised that Tressa went down at bedtime, expecting her to sleep through the night. What I wanted didn't happen. About a half hour before the interns left Tressa woke up. Now I am thinking to myself, "this is going to be a long night". I told Ken we should go rent some movies at Blockbuster. We pack up Tressa and go to the movie store with no diaper bag. Bad idea.

While we were walking around looking at movies, Tressa was making these burping noises, the type you here before throwing up. Yup, you guessed it. Before long out comes the pacifier, Hello food chunks. She throw up all over the front of me. I got the most out of the experience. What was worse is the movie store didn't have bathroom at all. (Isn't that illegal :) )All the way home I was thinking to myself, "I thought it would never happen to me". But you know what this won't be the last either. If you want to know, Tressa didn't crash until around 3 in the morning. Oh what a night.

How time flies!!!

As of yesterday, Tressa is now 14 months old. How time flies. She has turned into our little girl with personality. Her vocabulary is up to 25 to 30 words. Her new ones that she said yesterday are "bath" and "simpsons". She loves to read books and to have you read books to her. She has also learned to fold her arms during prayers. Here is her 14 month picture.

Labor Day weekend

We were lucky to have Traci and her family visit us over Labor Day. They arrived in on Sunday, we had dinner and after the kids went to bed, we played games and ate junk food. It was great fun. On Labor Day we went to the park to let the kids run around and get rid of all their energy. Then we treated ourselves to a nice BBQ in the backyard. While the kids were watching a movie, the adults decided to play more games. We had a great time. Thank you Traci and family for coming. You are welcome to come again. We would like anyone who can come and visit us. We would love it.

My first blog

Everybody has been telling me to start a blog so they can see how Tressa is growing and to keep them updated on everyday life. So I did it!!!